Michael Pryor

Michael Pryor
Born April 23, 1957(1957-04-23)
Swan Hill, Victoria
Nationality Australian
Genres Speculative fiction
www.michaelpryor.com.au

Michael Pryor is an Australian writer of speculative fiction.

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Biography

Pryor was born in Swan Hill, Victoria and currently lives in Melbourne with his wife and two daughters.[1] His first work to be published was the short story "Talent" in 1990, which was published in Aurealis #1.[2] He received his first nomination for his work in 1993 when the short story "It's All in the Way You Look At It" was nominated for the Ditmar Award for best short fiction, however it lost to Greg Egan's "Closer".[3] In 1996 Pryor released his first novel, The Mask of Caliban, which was a finalist for the 1997 Aurealis Award for best young-adult novel.[2][4] In 2003 he started writing novels in The Quentaris Chronicles, a shared universe with several other authors.[2] Pryor has been nominated for an Aurealis Award on five other occasions with the most recent being in 2007 with his novel Heart of Gold.[5]

Bibliography

Novels

Doorways Trilogy

The Quentaris Chronicles

The Laws of Magic

The Chronicles of Krangor

Other novels

Short fiction

Essays

Source: ISFDB.com, michaelpryor.com.au

Nominations

Aurealis Awards

Ditmar Awards

References

  1. ^ "Bio & F.A.Qs". Michael Pryor. http://www.michaelpryor.com.au/bioAndFAQs.htm. Retrieved 2010-04-20. 
  2. ^ a b c "Michael Pryor - Summary Bibliography". ISFDB. http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?Michael_Pryor. Retrieved 2010-04-20. 
  3. ^ "The Locus Index to SF Awards: 1993 Ditmar Awards". Locus Online. http://www.locusmag.com/SFAwards/Db/Ditmar1993.html. Retrieved 2010-04-20. 
  4. ^ "The Locus Index to SF Awards: 1997 Aurealis Awards". Locus Online. http://www.locusmag.com/SFAwards/Db/Aurealis1997.html. Retrieved 2010-04-20. 
  5. ^ "The Locus Index to SF Awards: Index of Literary Nominees". Locus Online. http://www.locusmag.com/SFAwards/Db/NomLit106.html. Retrieved 2010-04-20. 

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